Refresh Wellness Application: developing mental wellness tools using AI

经历精神健康挑战或精神疾病的人通常很难在工作场所获得或维持一个职位。这使加拿大经济每年损失500亿美元，并导致50万公民失业。由于缺乏就业，个人也失去了通过工作产生的精神、情感和生理上的好处。疏离使进一步的心理疾病永久化。作为回应，萨斯喀彻温省理工学院（Sask Polytech）的数字整合卓越中心（DICE）、Refresh Enterprises, Inc. （Refresh）和加拿大心理健康协会萨斯喀彻温省分部（CMHA-SK）正在合作完成Refresh健康应用程序（RWA）的开发，这是一个多方面的生活方式项目，将促进健康的心态，并通过同行和专业人士促进关系支持。RWA将利用人工智能（AI）、数据分析和自动人格识别（APR）技术，自动响应用户的心理和情绪状态，提供有用的建议和资源。在个人用户允许的情况下，可以与卫生保健工作者共享信息，以告知他们的服务。服务提供商将能够在应用程序的企业目录中列出自己。RWA将是首个为组织提供的同类服务，使他们能够通过合并从个人员工匿名跟踪中获得的数据，作为一个单一的实体来分析他们的企业福利。数据加密、匿名化和限制技术将保护用户的身份和信息；当地和国际数据管理条例将告知RWA如何处理敏感信息。简而言之，刷新健康应用程序打算成为加拿大所有心理健康服务的纽带。卫生保健工作者将与他们的病人更好地联系起来，使用分析工具来提高他们自己的服务。组织将能够以一种全新的方式评估自己的实力，并最终捕获和利用交叉数据。

People experiencing mental wellness challenges or mental illness often struggle to obtain or maintain a position in the workplace. This costs the Canadian economy $50B/yr and results in five hundred thousand unemployed citizens. With lack of employment, individuals also lose mental, emotional, and physiological benefits generated through work. Disconnection perpetuates further psychological sickness. In response, the Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech), Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh), and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division (CMHA-SK) are collaborating to finalize the development of the Refresh Wellness App (RWA), a multifaceted lifestyle program that will promote healthy mentality and facilitate relational support through peers and professionals. RWA will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automatic personality recognition (APR) technology in order to automatically respond to users' mental and emotional states, offering helpful suggestions and resources. With the individual user's permission, information could be shared with health care workers to inform their services. Service providers will be able to list themselves in the app's business directory. RWA will be a first-of-its-kind service for organizations, enabling them to analyze their corporate wellbeing as a single entity by merging data obtained from anonymized tracking of individual employees. Data encryption, anonymization, and limitation techniques will safeguard users' identities and information; local and international data management regulations will inform how the RWA handles sensitive information. In short, the Refresh Wellness App intends to become the nexus of all Canadian mental health services. Health care workers will be better connected to their patients, with access to analytic tools that will enhance their own services. Organizations will be able to both assess their strength in a completely new way and to eventually capture and utilize intersectional data.